Karen O’Connor was born in Millstreet, Co. Cork in 1965.

Her collections are Fingerprints (On Canvas) (Tralee, Co Kerry, Doghouse, 2005); and Between The Lines (Doghouse, 2011).
She is winner of the Nora Fahy Literary Award (short story), the End of Festival Slam at the West Cork Literary Festival and the Listowel Writers Week Single Poem Competition.
She lives in Tralee, Co. Kerry.
Karen O’Connor at Doghouse Books
Karen O’Connor at The National Library of Ireland
